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“I’ve frequently been told things like: “Girl, you’ve been hanging out with too many white folk” ; “What do you have to be depressed about? If our people could make it through slavery, we can make it through anything” ; “Take your troubles to Jesus, not no damn psychiatrist.”
― Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression
― Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression
“We sat in an awkward silence for some time. I wondered why, after all he had been through with his mother, Eugene welcomed another depressive into his life. Wasn’t he afraid of the consequences? How did he escape the contagious effects of mental illness?”
― Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression
― Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression
“Why do you give people so much power over you? That M.D. behind his name just means that he’s trained to facilitate your healing. You’re the one who’s actually got to make it happen. Therapy doesn’t work unless you know what you want out of it. You’re the one who has the power to change things.”
― Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression
― Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression
“The illusion of strength has been and continues to be of major significance to me as a black woman. The one myth that I have had to endure my entire life is that of my supposed birthright to strength. Black women are supposed to be strong – caretakers, nurtures, healers of other people – any of the twelve dozen variations of Mammy. Emotional hardship is supposed to be built into the structure of our lives. It went along with the territory of being both black and female in a society that completely undervalues the lives of black people and regards all women as second-class citizens. It seemed that suffering, for a black woman, was part of the package.
Or so I thought.”
― Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression
Or so I thought.”
― Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression
“How in the world can anyone get married and make babies with things the way they are now?”
― Parable of the Sower
― Parable of the Sower
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